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When profits were down (mind you they were still making a profit), Harley penalized workers with a take it or leave it contract cutting benefits, pay and the number of workers and threatened to move the Milwaukee plant if workers didn't vote in favor. Now that they're making a much bigger profit, wondering if they will reward workers.

As a stock holder I hope HD continues to cut labor costs. We can replace the dinosaurs who are still in the labor force with young energetic kids who don't have the entitled union mentality. Profits baby thats what its about, if you don't like go find another job, the world owes you nothing

You're right about the redundant "sales up on strong sales" part...but it's not actually that rare for a company's sales to go up and profits to go down. Corporate accounting is a funny beast: if a company has large, one-time charges, unexpected capital expenses, large write-downs or simply miss on profit margins, then profits could go down even as sales go up.

Sorry, I know that's nitpicking. But, just felt like throwing that out there.

The company won't restore any wages or benefits!! All they will do is increase Wandell's and other senior leadership's compensation packages. Maybe they'll give Wandell another $8 plus million dollars. The best part is that senior leadership has all the perks that they cut from the "working class". They're not entitled!!!!

Help me out here... Profits rise 44% on an increase of 20% in sales. (That's a pretty good spike in profits). Especially after you stated that the MSRP of bicycles remained the same. The article reported that Harley has limited production capabilities. That makes me assume that they running at full capacity. So (as you commented in another article), did H-D hire more workers or did H-D workers increase their ability to build bikes faster?

Yes. They now all work at superhuman speed. They were doing awesome before, but now they've all tapped into their secret super powers to build at twice the speed of normal humans.

Look, if you're not interested in learning about modn manufacturing, I'm not going to be your teacher. Work stations are set for specific time intervals. Workers operate at a consistent speed. The items that can change are quality or hours of operation. If quality goes down, fewer bikes go out the door. If more hours are worked, workers get more money via overtime pay.

Harley is doing great things, which is good for the union workers, the shareholders and the community. Celebrate it.

Could it be that HD is selling more bikes because they are omitting the mufflers and tantalizing the “basalt brains” to buy something they think will make them powerful and prominent just because they can make a lot of noise?

Even though HD installs mufflers on bikes which, by the way, are required by law in WI, we have those who never evolved beyond the sophomoric mentality of a 12 year old and remove the mufflers to confirm their intellect. Their entertainment is to drive around as loud as possible while the pleading words keep looping in their addled brains…. “Hey…look at me…I am SOMEbody” !!